After nearly a decade of defining taste at the Art Institute of Chicago, John McKinnon (MA 2008) is taking his talents to Elmhurst Art Museum.
McKinnon will be stepping down from his position as program director at the Art Institute's Society for Contemporary Art to take over as executive director at Elmhurst Art Museum.

“There’s something here for everyone,” writes Lori Waxman (Art History, Theory, and Criticism, New Arts Journalism) in a recent review for the Chicago Tribune of Here, a solo exhibition of work by SAIC Professor in the Painting and Drawing department, Candida Alvarez.

Several SAIC alumni are featured in the Brooklyn Museum's show The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America. As part of a partnership with the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, the exhibition combines research on the history of violence against Black people and communities with works from the museum's collection.

Hong Sang-soo’s (MFA 1989) film On the Beach at Night Alone won the prestigious Wilf Family Foundation Award (worth $20,000) for best international film at the 34th Jerusalem Film Festival, reports Variety.
The jury called Sang-soo’s film “a mysterious magic, rooted in the heart of daily life” that he had crafted with “the simplest of cinematic tools.”

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For 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.